Garter: alternatives and connections

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.

A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who…

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and…

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smear…

A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by…

One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.

To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the…

To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests…

A kind of stocking.